Pension Revamp Should Fall
To Private Corporations

Here are selected reactions, and my replies, to the Sept. 16 Capital column on pensions. Some of the comments have been edited. You can write me at capital@wsj.com.

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Marvin Kristein writes:

It would be helpful to keep in mind that the popular retirement age of 65 was chosen by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck over 100 years ago because demographers told him that most people, at that time, were dead by age 65. The retirement...